SPOTLIGHT ON 2017 GREEN CHAMPIONS: SENATOR PAUL PINSKY

Submitted by Dannielle Lipinski on October 06, 2017

On September 16th, we unveiled our first group of “Green Champions,” an exceptional group of legislators whose superlative leadership on environmental legislation includes lifetime scores above 95 percents and primary sponsorship of priority environmental legislation during the previous three years. The ten legislators honored this year are Senators Cheryl Kagan, Paul Pinsky, and Victor Ramirez, along with Delegates David Fraser-Hidalgo, Bill Frick, Tawanna Gaines, Steve Lafferty, Clarence Lam, Brooke Lierman, and Shane Robinson. Each week we will shine a spotlight on our champions and showcase a video of them. This week is Senator Paul Pinsky, who represents district 22 in Prince George's County.

SENATOR PAUL PINSKY

Hi, I'm State Senator Paul Pinsky from Prince George's County and I serve on the Education, Health, and Environment Committee where I'm the Vice Chairman. I want to say that the Maryland League of Conservation Voters is a very important organization. It plays multiple functions: it serves as an advocacy group, organizes people, mobilizes people, which makes life easier for us [legislators]. We can be the voice for those grassroots people. And for organizations were doing the good work around the environment. But it also holds elected officials accountable by publicizes its scorecard. How people still in the issues and lets people know whether they should return to Annapolis or not and that's a very important issue. People want to elect people who take their time and we have to do what it takes to take them out of office and put more progressive people in.